The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-12

certainty that not o neck had been
broken and the four Haymarket muir
derers had been literally throttled and
strangled by law.
At 100 there was no pulse perceptible
in any of the men.
THE CoFFINs WERE THEN CARRIED IN.
The last words of the four dead Anar-
chists were as follows:
Spies-"There will come time when
our silence will be more powerful than
the voices they are strangling to death
now"
Engel-"Hurrah for Anarchy"
Fischer" Hurrah for Anarchy. This
is the happiest moment of my life."
Parsons-"May 1 be allowed to
speak? Will you let me speak, Sheriff
Matson? Let the voice of the people
be heard?" -.
All the Anarchists died of strangula-
ton. None of their necks was broken.
Engel's daughter applied to the
sheriff this morning for permission
to see her father and say goodbye, but
was refused. She was not agitated in
the least and took the refusal in mat
ter-of fact way. Mrs. Van Zant, with
-.
about $50 O'Clock this morning, and
asked for permission to enter, but were
refused admission by the guards. Nina,
breaking into tears, fell upon
her mothers shoulder. In this at
titude they were driven homeward.
Nina fairly flung herself into the house.
and could be heard without, sobbing
and moaning. Amid her daughters
lamentations, Mrs. Van Zandt sent dis
patches to Governor Oglesby and Cap
tain Black at Springfield.
1t was wonC erful to note how quickly
the excitement which had filled the Jail
all the morning Gained down.
The two hundred prisoners confined
in the place, who had been in a fever
heat during the tragic event of the day,
RECLAIMED THEIR USUAL SPIRITS.
They cracked jokes from cell to cell,
and as they had had nothing to. eat
since breakfast, they soon began to yell
for soup, soup! The spectators who
had witnessed the hanging walked rap
idly out of the enclosure, and the wear
led deputies went to dinner, the only
ones left in the Jail Office being the press
representatives.
Letters were written this morning, by
order of the Sheriff, to the relatives OF
the doomed men. notifying them they
could take possession of the bodies after
the hanging and make arrangements for
the funerals. The letters were deliV
cred by Deputy Johnson, who was Wis
IDLY affected by the sad duty. Deputy
Johnson says the
GRIEF DISPLAYED BY SPIES FAMILY
was something terrible ito contemplate,
but the relatives of the other men were
not so visibly affected. Spies was re-
moved IN his coffin at l. 40 O'CLOCK. The
remains. were received by committee of
! committee left the jail, they went into
the visitors cage and shouted Good
bye" to SchWab and Fielden, who will
be removed to Joliet Penitentiary to
morrow. The members of the commit
tee kissed their hands and raised their
hats to their imprisoned comrades, and
sadly left.
At 1.30 o'clock, the coffin in which lay
the body of Parsons was carried out OF
the jail and
Curious police officials walked into
the jail to learn how the execution had
been proceeded with, and were in turn
questioned as to how the citizens out
side had acted.
"There was absolutely no trouble"
one and all replied.
Fishers remains were removed to his
home at l 80.
Many people displayed autographs
of the dead Fischer which he had
written during the morning. 1t was
estimated that he made fifty of them in
all. They all read alike, and were
couched in the following words.
Anarchy is liberty.
Cook County Jail
1t was exactly an hour after the exc
cution when the men
BEGAN TAKING DOWN THE sCAFFoLD,
and within two hours all evidences of
the tragedy were gone. When the in
telligence came outside that the men
were on the scaffold, the officers WHO
were inside the lines of police, went to
the u, neastern corner Of, Illinois Street
aud waited. Among them were Chief
EbersolC and Captain Setback. On the
TOOl VI Guc COuII UullQluS, NASIc lucJ
could look through one of the big jail
windows, were posted nine policemen.
From their position they could see the
scatfold and the condemned men upon
it. AS the grim moment approached,
the men on the roof kept the officers
below informed of the proceedings in
side. As IL o'clock drew near, police
man, who was straining his eyes to see
the interior of the jail, raised his hand
and without turning his head aside,
said, in thrilling undertones:
THEY ARE PUTTING ON THE CAPS"
For an instant the cluster of officers
waited below with bated breath and
heads half inclined to one side, waiting
to hear the news of the drop. "Sh,"
now murmured the man on the roof. A
loud thump came from the interior of |
the Jail. 1t was the sound made by |
the falling trap. Every one in the |
group heard 1t distinctly, and |
every body knew what it meant |
The expectation of the walters broke up |
quickly. The policemen on the roof